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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 32.1-176.4 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 32.1-176.4. Powers and duties of Board and Department; regulations; fees.
A. The Board shall adopt regulations pertaining to the location and
construction of private wells in the Commonwealth. The Department shall
enforce the provisions of this article and any rules and regulations adopted
pursuant thereto. However, for private wells located in the County
Counties of James City, the County of Fairfax, Loudoun, and
Prince William and the City of Suffolk, the governing body of such county
or city may, by ordinance, establish standards which are consistent with
Board standards pertaining to location and testing of water therefrom and
more stringent than those adopted by the Board pertaining to construction and
abandonment. However, any county or city granted these additional powers
shall not require certification for drillers of monitoring wells and any
recovery wells associated with such monitoring wells.
B. The Board may prescribe a reasonable fee, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, to be charged for filing an application for a private well construction permit with the Department. Funds received in payment of such charges shall be transmitted to the Comptroller for deposit. The funds from the fees shall be credited to a special fund to be appropriated by the General Assembly, as it deems necessary, to the Department for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title. The Board shall establish a procedure for the waiver of fees for persons whose incomes are below the federal poverty guidelines established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services or when the application is for replacement of a well. If the Board prescribes such fee and the Department denies the permit for land on which the applicant seeks to construct his principal place of residence, then such fee shall be refunded to the applicant.
From such funds as are appropriated to the Department from the special fund, the Board shall apportion a share to the local or district health departments to be allocated in the same ratios as provided for the operation of such health departments pursuant to § 32.1-31. Such funds shall be transmitted to the local or district health departments on a quarterly basis.